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    Myanmar warned over forcing cyclone survivors home (Reuters)

    A family look for traces of their house, on a marooned embankment, in the village of Pay Kunhnasay in the Kawhmu township May 30, 2008. (Aung Hla Tun/Reuters)Reuters - * Rights groups urge Myanmar to stop evictions


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 11:04:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Iran says its right to enrichment is non-negotiable (Reuters)

    Iranian government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham hosts his weekly news conference in Tehran November 13, 2007. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)Reuters - Iran will not give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday, days before major powers submit an upgraded package of incentives to try to coax Tehran into halting the work.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 10:24:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Democrats try to settle Florida and Michigan dispute (Reuters)

    Co-Chairs of the US Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee, James Roosevelt (L) and Alexis Herman confer alongside Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean (R) at the start of their meeting in Washington May 31, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - The Democratic Party searched for a compromise over disputed convention delegates from Florida and Michigan on Saturday at a raucous meeting marked by pleas for party unity and warnings about the consequences in November's presidential election.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 18:41:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Sharapova gains 4th round at French (AP)

    Russia's Maria Sharapova returns the ball to Italy's Karin Knapp during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament, Saturday May 31, 2008 at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. (AP Photo/David Vincent)AP - Maria Sharapova saved her most piercing shriek to punctuate her final shot of the first set, a thunderous crosscourt backhand winner to close out a tiebreaker.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 18:25:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Myanmar warned against premature resettlement (AP)

    People displaced by Cyclone Nargis line up by their tents for United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at a refugee camp in Kyondah village, Myanmar May 22, 2008. (Stan Honda/Pool/Reuters)AP - Cyclone victims in Myanmar who leave relief camps may not receive the aid they need, making them even more vulnerable to disease and the elements, a U.N. official said Saturday following reports of forced evictions by the government.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 16:00:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Tropical Storm Arthur forms near Belize coast (AP)

    This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 02:15 PM EDT shows clouds in the western Caribbean Sea associated with Tropical Storm Arthur that formed from the remnants of Tropical Storm Alma. The storm is expected to make its way into the Bay of Campeche over the next few days.   (AP Photo/Weather Undergound)AP - The first storm of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season has formed near the coast of Belize.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 17:21:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    West Point graduates 972, most headed to war (AP)

    Cadets toss their hats in the air at the completion of a graduation ceremony at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 31, 2008.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - The class of 2008 graduated Saturday from the U.S. Military Academy, 972 men and women who were saluted by the top Army official for their willingness to serve during deadly conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 17:41:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Peru's Shining Path guerrillas on the rise again (AP)

    Local security members known as 'Ronderos' patrol in Pichihuillca village in Ayacucho state, Peru,  Nov. 10, 2007. Villagers are facing a new Shining Path movement, which is growing in number as its members visit isolated villages asking forgiveness for past attacks on civilians, and to join them. The Shining Path was a Maoist insurgency that bloodied Peru for more than a decade until its leader was captured in 1992.   (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)AP - Matucana's mayor is a worried man. The Shining Path rebels who terrorized Peru decades ago are back, moving across the jungle-draped slopes near his remote village and recruiting young fighters to their born-again insurgency.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 16:24:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Bone drug Zometa helps fight breast cancer spread (AP)
    AP - A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease. -- read full article
    Sat, 31 May 2008 16:11:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    NASA fuels shuttle Discovery for launch (AP)

    Space shuttle Discovery crew member Michael Fossum waves as he departs with other crew members for the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida May 31, 2008. The crew of seven astronauts is beginning a mission to the International Space Station.     REUTERS/Pierre DuCharme (UNITED STATES)AP - With a sunny sky as the perfect backdrop, astronauts climbed aboard space shuttle Discovery on Saturday for a late afternoon launch to the international space station.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 18:13:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Al-Qaida's stance on women sparks extremist debate (AP)

    In this file image made from television on Nov. 13, 2005, Iraqi Sajida al-Rishawi opens her jacket and shows an explosive belt as she confesses on Jordanian state-run television to her failed bid to set off an explosives belt inside one of the three Amman hotels targeted by al-Qaida. Women Muslim extremists have posted Internet messages in recent weeks expressing frustration with the al-Qaida No. 2 leader's refusal to give them a larger role in terror attacks - an extraordinary, emotional debate that offers rare insight into the tense gender politics lurking below the surface of al-Qaida's severe strain of Islam. (AP Photo/Jordanian TV, File)AP - Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida's refusal to include — or at least acknowledge — women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives rare insight into the gender conflicts lurking beneath one of the strictest strains of Islam.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 16:47:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    AP Impact: Hurricane season outlooks of little use (AP)

    A solitary sunbather, a renourishment pipe and a condemned oceanfront home is shown in North Topsail Beach, N.C., Wednesday, May 14, 2008. The island has ongoing difficulties with erosion that may make it particularly vulnerable to hurricane strikes. (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)AP - Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow deep in the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there, breathlessly awaiting his every word.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 16:23:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama, Clinton camps seek end to delegate dispute (AP)

    Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws committee co-chairs Jim Roosevelt, second from left, and Alexis Herman, second from right, listen during a meeting, Saturday, May 31, 2008 in Washington, to determine how to count the primary votes for Michigan and Florida. Also at the tale are Joe Sandler, DNC General Counsel, left, and DNC staff member Phil McNamara.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Supporters for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton staked out competing positions Saturday as Democrats searched for a compromise to seat disputed convention delegations from Florida and Michigan and clear the way for a smooth end to the marathon struggle for the presidential nomination.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 18:34:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Upbeat CIA assessment on Al-Qaeda challenged (AFP)

    CIA director Michael Hayden, seen here, came under stiff challenge for portraying Al-Qaeda as on the defensive after global setbacks, even in its safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - CIA director Michael Hayden has come under stiff challenge for portraying Al-Qaeda as on the defensive after global setbacks, even in its safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 07:37:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    1.3 million poised to flee as China drains 'quake lake' (AFP)

    A map locating a naturally formed lake at Tangjiashan in Sichuan. China rushed Friday to remove radioactive and chemical materials sitting downstream from a AFP - China was poised Saturday to dynamite a dangerous "quake lake" to drain its waters as 1.3 million people nearby were kept on alert for possible evacuation.


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    Sat, 31 May 2008 06:07:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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